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prate

/preyt/US // preɪt //UK // (preɪt) //

侈谈,侈靡,侈靡不振,侈奢

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    prat·ed, prat·ing.

    • : to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    prat·ed, prat·ing.

    • : to utter in empty or foolish talk: to prate absurdities with the greatest seriousness.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : act of prating.
    • : empty or foolish talk.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Golden Age-of-TV evangelists prate on about which glorified soap operas are most deserving of our rapt attention.

  • But I am transgressing the rule I laid down for myself in the outset of these stories—not to prate much about my own pets.

  • After that let him who will prate of the feeling of identity and the consciousness of self.

  • Neither shalt thou prate even to thy own heart of 'those secrets known to all.'

  • Uds life, Ill stick my knife in your guts an you prate to me so!

  • My fanaticism is, that I insist on the American people abolishing Slavery, or ceasing to prate of the rights of man.